In the alleyway, Raph and Louie were standing side by side while facing a tall man standing in the other side of the alley. He had blue shoulder-length hair and he was wore a crimson-red tank top, blue tracksuit pants and a white hockey-mask on his face. The man stared at the turtles with his blue eyes through of his mask's eye holes while spinning the pair of baseball bats in his hands.

"I guess you could call it fate, but I finally met somebody as angry as I am, and he was really making me mad."

Both Raph and Louie took out their respective weapons, spinning them in their hands.

"My name... is Raphael."

Raph angrily gritted his teeth as he shot a narrowed glare at the man in the hockey mask, who narrowed his own eyes as he glared back at Raph.

"And this bozo in the hockey mask is about to find out how angry I can just be!"

"But if Louie wants his share of this guy, let him know that I'm definitely not in a sharing mood right now, because this bozo is mine... mine alone!"

"HAAAAAA!" Raph roared as he, and Louie right behind him, charged at the hockey mask guy.

(The screen pulls away from New York City with couple spot lights waving above of it. Then a four green letters forming the word TMNT towers over the city.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

(The screen rises to the edge of the roof, on which is standing eight green shadowy humanoid creatures with the turtle-like features. Two of them were crouching/bending down and all of them had by colors individual ninja masks; One (Named Leonardo) had blue, second one (Named Marietta) had turquoise, third one (Named Raphael) had red, fourth one (Named Domenico) had white, fifth one (Named Artemisia) had pink, sixth one (Named Lorenzo) had black, seventh one (Named Donatello) had purple and the last one (Named Michelangelo) had orange. Then, as the light beam passed them, all eight turtles leap off the edge of the roof.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen then splits from right to left into four narrow screens.)
"ONE, TWO"
(In the first one, Michelangelo is holding his Nunchucks in the air. In the second one, Raphael is holding one Sai above his head while pointing the other downwards.)
"THREE, FOUR"
(In the third one, Donatello is holding Bo-staff in front of him. In the fourth one, Leonardo has crossed his sword-holding arms over his chest.)
(TURTLES!)

(Leonardo is seen fighting two ninjas wielding Naginata-spears. The turtle slices both ninjas weapons' staves in two with his swords before kicking both one by one away.)
"MUTANT CHAIN REACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Donatello is seen driving a Sewer Slider down the sewer tunnel, before the turtle in purple turns to smirk to the camera and holds a thumb up.)
"LIVIN' UNDERGROUND"
(TURTLES!)

(Raphael is seen making couple of flips; one over the fence and one towards the screen, before he delivers the kick at the camera, blackening it for a second.)
"NINJUTSU ACTION"
(TURTLES!)

(Widely grinning Michalengelo is seen standing on top of the large green armored car that's speeding along the street, while spinning his Nucnhacku wildly in the air.)
"IT'S A SHELL OF THE TOWN!"

(As the turtle in orange leaps off, the armored car flies in arc over the street before landing back to the ground. Then its back doors open up and two of the turtles, Raphael and Lorenzo, rocket out of the car in the backs of red and avocado green bikes before skidding them sideways to a stop.)

(In the alleyway, next to the blue armored car, the eight turtles crouch down before leaping to attack towards the camera, with Michelangelo taking the lead and kicks the screen with his foot.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screen: the upper screen shows a blue-masked face with into a glare narrowed eyes while lower screen shows eight turtles standing in line in front of the gray-furred humanoid rat dressed in the brown robe, Master Splinter by name.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a purple-masked face with lightly frowned glare while upper screen shows Master Splinter swinging his wooden staff down at the couple of attacking Mouser-robots.)
("ONE!")
"LIVE BY THE CODE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a red-masked face with the deep frown, while the lower screen shows a large and muscular blonde-haired man, named Hun, leading a group of silhouetted street gang thugs from the ablaze background towards the screen)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a orange-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Hun sneering at the camera, before he throws a punch towards it, blackening the screen for the split second.)
("TWO!")
"NEVER FIGHT UNLESS SOMEONE ELSE STARTS"

(A red-haired young woman, named April O'Neil, is then seen winking at the camera from the cockpit of the helicopter with the rope hanging from its undercarriage, which she flies past of the blue tower with the Japanese style palace on top of it. On top of it, two turtles, Donatello and Domenico are seeing battling six ninjas on the edge, until they're knocked off the building. Falling down, Domenico grabs from the helicopter's rope with one hand and grabs with his free one from Donnie's hand, cutting his falling, and they're both lifted up in the air.)
("THREE!")
"ALWAYS STICK TOGETHER NO MATTER WHAT"

(In the dark alley, the eight turtles are standing shell to shell in middle of the bright spotlight, while they're surrounded by the dozens and dozens of in the darkness standing and heavily armed ninjas that keep coming from the darkness and rooftops above of the alley. The turtles fearlessly demonstrate their skills with their weapons before taking their respective battle stances.)
("FOUR!")
"IF ALL ELSE FAILS, THEN IT'S TIME TO KICK BUTT!"

(Screen rises up to the tall buildings.)
(Artimesia jumps from the left with her legs bent under, while spinning around and swinging her sharp Tessens around, and at the same time Michelangelo jumps from the right. With the smirk on his face, the turtle in orange makes the flip in the air while spinning his Nunchucks wildly.)
(Then, Donatello jumps from the right, spinning his Bo-staff with his left hand while swinging it over his head before grabbing it with both hands and bringing it down hard. At the same time, Marietta jumps from the right, spinning her Naginata in her right hand, before spinning around and sending a horizontal slash with her weapon's blade forward.)
(Then, Domenico jumps from the left, spinning his Tonfas in his hands before thrusting his right Tonfa forward like a stabbing movement. At the same time, Leonardo jumps from the right with his Katanas crossed, before he pulls them to the sides as he delivers the kick forward with his foot.)
(Raphael then jumps from the left and crossed his arms in front of him before pulling them back, making his Sais to flash. Right after him, Lorenzo jumps from the right, holding his left Butterfly sword in front of him and his right Butterfly sword over his head, before swinging them forward to slash with them the air in front of him.)
(Then a 14-year-old girl with purple-dyed hair styled in pigtails, and dressed in a sleeveless, teal hoodie and red baggy jeans jumps from the left after the turtle in black and shoots the punch towards the screen with her left fist. Then a tall blue-haired and -eyed man with the hockey mask on his face jumps from the right and whacks the screen with his hockey stick.)

(Leo, with swords in hands, is then seen landing onto one ninja's back, knocking him down.)
(Donnie is then seen whacking another ninja off his feet and out with his Bo.)
(Raph is then seen blocking the third ninja's kick with his left arm while holding his Sai in his fist.)
(Mikey is then seen punching fourth in the face with his right fist while holding a Nunchuck.)
(Marietta is then seen kicking the fifth in the chest while holding her Naginata up.)
(Domenico is then seen back-handing the sixth with his left hand's Tonfa)
(Lorenzo is then seen blocking seventh's sword with his left hand's sword while thrusting his right towards the ninja as if to stab him in the chest)
(Artemisia is then seen with her arms crossed in front of her white holding her opened pink Tessens in her hands.)
(Raph is then seen again, this time surrounded by several ninjas, until he spins himself around with his hands clenched into fist around of his Sais' hilts spread out, knocking all ninjas away from him.)

(Cut to the wide shot, where seven silhouettes of the turtles are seen running, jumping and flipping along the rooftops, water towers and chimneys, as the camera follows them. One of the turtles swings over them by the chain with one hand like Tarzan.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in blue's and purple's masked faces above and the line of turtles in red and orange's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A..."
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(The turtles then land to the ground in front of the building. Leonardo is in the middle, Donatello, Marietta and Domenico are in his right side while Michelangelo, Lorenzo and Artemisia are in his left side. All seven then ran towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(Then, Raphael races over the building in the back of the bike and jumps off it towards and past the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(The screen splits into four narrow screens again, this time from left to right.)
"FIVE, SIX"
(In the first one, Marietta is pointing her Naginata's blade at the screen. In the second one, Lorenzo is holding his Butterfly-swords upside down in his arms, while holding the left one horizontally in front of his face and right one over his head.)
"SEVEN, EIGHT"
(In the third one, Domenico is holding his Tonfa-holding arms crossed over his chest. In the fourth one, Artemisia is holding her right hand's Tessen opened in front of her face, partially covering them behind of her weapon, while pointing with her left closed one at the screen.)
(TURTLES!)

(Marietta is seen standing in the dead end of the alley, spinning around while spinning her Naginata with her hands in front of her, before she pulls it behind her shell-back and holds her left hand forward as two two hands, one holding a knife and one a fire-axe, appears from both sides of the screen.)
"AT NIGHTFALL, WE'RE COMING"
(TURTLES!)

(Lorenzo is seen riding on top of the subway car, with his Butterfly swords sunk to its roof. And as he approaches the camera, the turtle in black pulls his swords up and jumps forward towards the camera and kicks the screen into black.)
"OUT OF MANHOLE"
(TURTLES!)

(Domenico is seen stabbing with his left and then his right Tonfa at one practice dummy in his right to the head, knocking it back. Then he turns around and spin-kicks the other dummy in his left in the head with his right foot. Then the turns around and whacks the camera with his left Tonfa.)
"BEWARE, THE BADDIES!"
(TURTLES!)

(The screen pulls back, showing Artemisia skating with the pair of pink roller skates along the rooftop as she is being chased by the dozen ninjas with the swords. Four more ninjas appears from the sides of the screen, chasing after the skating turtle in pink. She peeks over her left shoulder at them, smirks and then picks up the pace, skating into the camera.)
"MUTANTS NINJAS ARE ON THE MOVE!"

(Arcee then skates towards a pretty large ninja with the sword held up and ready to strike (with her pursuers' running feet showing in the sides of the screen). However, as the large ninja tries to strike at the turtle in pink horizontally, she grabs from both of his wrists, spins around and throws him over her shoulder at her pursuers. The ninja flies towards the camera face-first.)

(Arcee then turns around and somersaults over the edge of the building. The screen then moves down in front of with the wooden boards boarded doorway, before the same green armored car - with Domenico in the driver's seat and Marietta in the passenger's seat - smashes through it, allowing the turtle in pink to land onto its roof.)

(Screen then turns to the back-doors of the car as it is chased by two ninjas on motorbikes, until the back-doors fly open and Lorenzo jumps out with the barrel-roll, landing on his shell to the street, somersaulting back to his feet and then lunging at the ninjas, knocking them both off the bikes as he flies face-first at the camera.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF"

(The screen splits into two horizontal screens again: the upper screen shows a turquoise-masked face with lightly frowned glare, while lower screen shows Artemisia, Leonardo and Marietta in the snowy woods, staring at the five silhouetted canine-like humanoid beings with various colored face-paints (dark purple, light blue, crimson, silver and green) standing in line. They all hit their fists with their fist before bowing to each other.)
(In the next one, lower screen shows a white-masked face with deep frown while upper screen shows the silhouetted canine-like humanoid with white fur and dark purple face-paint. Wielding a single Kama in its right had, the figure fights two hunter-looking men with the hunting rifles: kicking away one standing front of it with the left foot before elbowing the second one standing behind the back in the face with its right elbow. The figure then turns around, snarls ferally at the camera before slicing the screen in half with its Kama.)
("FIVE!")
"WE'LL ALWAYS FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL!"

(In the third one, upper screen shows a black-masked face with the wide eyes, while the lower screen shows Lorenzo and the same purple-haired and ponytailed teenager human girl standing back to shell-back in middle of the ring of the silhouetted enemies.)
(In the fourth one, the lower screen shows a pink-masked face with the soft stare, while the upper screen shows Louie and purple-haired girl turning to each other and taking each other from hands, before the turtle in black swings the girl around him in the air. As the turtle swings the girl towards the camera, the girl kicks the screen with her foot.)
("SIX!")
"WE COME, STRIKE HARD, AND VANISH INTO NIGHT"

(A next shot shows two buildings standing next to each other, until Donatello and Marietta appear from the left side of the screen and jump over the gap between the buildings (with Marietta pole-vaulting over the gap with her Naginata). Then four turtles, led by Leonardo, followed by Raphael and Artemisia and lastly Domenico, are seen rushing forward along the streets, weapons in hands. Michelangelo and Lorenzo are then seen following them right behind: the former by zipping along the rope with his Nunchaku and the latter by swinging by the chain like Tarzan while spinning the other one wildly around with his free hand.)
("SEVEN!")
"AS A TEAM, WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE EACH OTHER'S SHELLS."

(In the next shot, we see all eight turtles standing under the light in the darkness, with their backs turned to the camera as it pulls away from them. As they all turn around to the camera, they draw out their weapons and take their individual battle-stances, ready to face whoever is standing in front of them.)
("EIGHT!")
"AND WE'LL NEVER LEAVE OUR BUDDIES BEHIND!"

(Out of darkness appears Baxter Stockman, glaring menacingly at the camera while being surrounded by the dozens of menacing-looking Mousers, snapping their jaws. Stockman points at the camera with his finger as if ordering the attack and the Mousers lunge forward, snarling menacingly.)

(Camera moves to the right, showing a large pale-skinned, bald-headed and broad-shouldered man in the black ninja-garb, with the left side of his face viciously scarred. Backed up by the group of ninjas behind him, the scarred man draws out a sword from his X-shaped scabbard in his back and raises it with both hands up and next to the scarred side of his faces, pointing its tip at the camera while glaring himself darkly at the camera.)

(Camera moves then to the right again, this time showing a strange female creature with the pale yellowish skin, huge red eyes, long elf-like pointy ears, slightly hooked nose, shoulder-length black hair and wide grin that shows her mouth full of sharp teeth. She was dressed into black dress and a hooded cape, dark-blue and white-stripped pantyhose, ruby-red elf-like slippers and a long and slithering elf-like black hat. With the mischievous grin on her face, the creature waved its hands over, followed by the glowing aura and the flow of glowing various-colored stars in her left hand and the various-colored lightnings in her right hand, as if it was the magic.)

(Camera moves to the right once more, this time showing a mobster-like barrel-chested man with the thick eyebrows, mustache, double chin and tidy haircut. He was dressed in the blue shirt and a red black-spotted cravat, over which he wore a mafia-like olive green suit with the golden stripes. He had a same style pants and the shiny black-tipped brown shoes. He wore on his head a grayish-brown fedora hat and he had a cigar in his mouth. Backed up by several tough-looking guys in the mafia-like suits and fedora-hats - all armed with various guns or melee weapons - the man took the cigar out of his mouth and, with the nasty sneer, he pointed with his finger forward.)

(The screen turns back to the turtles, showing Donatello whacking several robots away with his staff while Raphael lands on one, crushing it, while stabbing his Sais through of two other)
(Domenico then moves to stab with his left Tonfa in one ninja's guts, before he turns around and whacks with his right one in the second ninja's chest, knocking him away, after which Artemisia slices the third ninja's staff in half with her Tessens before spinning around and kicking him in the chest with her left foot.)
(The strange pointy-eared creature then flies over to strike them with the magical lightnings, only for Marietta to pole-vault with her Naginata towards the creature before she lands a kick to her right side, knocking the creature off the air.)
(Three mafia thugs: one in the white shirt, black cravat, turquoise suit and reddish-brown fedora-hat, second one in the black shirt, green cravat, the brown suit and with the golden fedora-hat and third large, muscular, slightly hunchbacked, broad-shouldered and big-nosed guy with the thick eyebrows, shaven face and protruding lower jaw, who was dressed in the checkered blue-white shirt, red black-spotted bow tie, dark purple suit and a small dark blue bowler hat on top his head, rushed towards the turtles, only for Michelangelo to snap-kick away the turquoise-suited thug in the left, while Lorenzo kicks the brown-suited thug in the right in the guts before the big thug in the middle ends up being kicked away by Leonardo, who then spins around before crossing his swords in front of his face.)

(Cut to the wide three-leveled shot, where two silhouettes of two turtles are first seen running along the sewer pipe: One turtle is on foot while another turtle is skating along the pipe's rounded walls.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Screen moves upwards to the street level, where three silhouettes of three turtles are running along the streets: One is running on foot down the street, while second one is riding on the bike and third one is hopping along both the driving and parked cars' rooftops.)
(Then two narrower screens appear to above and beneath of the rooftop screen, showing the repeating line of turtles in turquoise's and white's masked faces above and the line of turtles in black's and pink's masked faces beneath, moving to the opposite direction.)
"I LOVE BEING' A..."

(Shot moves upwards again, to the roof level, where two silhouettes of two turtles are either jumping or pole-vaulting along the rooftops.)
"I LOVE BEING' A TURTLE!"

(Three turtles (Raphael in the left, Leonardo in the middle and Domenico in the right) are seen running towards the camera along the streets. Then Artemisia and Michelangelo jumps out of the open manholes, landing on their feet to the street and join the run next to Raph and Dom. Then they're joined by Marietta and Donatello, who land down from the rooftops to Leo's both sides. All seven then run towards the camera that moves between of Leo's legs.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES!"

(The camera then moves up towards the building with the full moon glowing behind of it, showing Lorenzo jumping off the building and towards the camera, spinning the chain wildly above his head before throwing it away and then swings by it over the camera in Spiderman-style.)
"TURTLES COUNT IT OFF:"

(A small square screen then appears from the left, showing Leonardo's shadowy yet calm-looking face. Another appears next to it from above, showing Donatello's shadowy yet determined-looking face.)
"ONE! TWO!"

(Third appears from beneath, showing Michelangelo's shadowy goofy-like face. Then the fourth appears from the right, showing Raphael's shadowy yet fierce-looking face with the gritted teeth.)
"THREE! FOUR!"

(A fifth square then screen then appears from the left, showing Marietta's shadowy yet calm-looking face. sixth then appears next to it from above, showing Domenico's shadowy yet deeply frowning face.)
"FIVE! SIX!"

(Seventh appears from beneath, showing Lorenzo's shadowy wildly hilarious-looking face. Then final eights appears from the right, showing Artemisia's shadowy yet determined-looking face with the smile.)
"SEVEN! EIGHT!"
(TURTLES!)

(All eight turtles are seen jumping down from the tall blue tower with the red Japanese palace style on top of it, which towers over all the other buildings of the town. With the weapons in hands, the turtles spin in a circle (First Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Donatello, then Domenico, then Michelangelo and finally Artemisia) as they fall towards the camera)
"THERE'S NO ONE BETTER"
(TURTLES!)

(In the ledge of the same tower, that is above of the blood-red three-toed symbol in middle of the bright light blue circle, a menacing-looking man in the full samurai-looking armor and helmet looks down after them, as his black cape floats in the blow of the wind and the lightning flashes in the sky behind him. The camera moves closer of his helmet-covering head, before the man turns to the camera and raises his left arm with the gauntlet armed with two charp claws.)
"WATCH OUT FOR THE SHREDDER"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are then seen standing in middle of the rooftop. With the weapons in hands, they briefly demonstrate their weapons-skills before taking their individual fighting poses: Donatello is seen standing in the middle, pointing his staff's end at the camera, while Raphael and Lorenzo are standing in his right, Marietta and Michelangelo are standing in his left and Domenico, Artemisia and Leonardo are standing behind of them.)
"THEY'RE LIKE NO OTHERS!"
(TURTLES!)

(The turtles are seen riding or skating on the various human equipment along the underground tunnel: Donnie is in the lead, wheeling with his purple-gray foldaway bike as he rode past the camera. Artemisia followed him afterwards on her own turquoise tuned dirt-bike, waving at the camera. She was followed by Leonardo on foldaway kick scooter with the blue board, hopping over the handlebar with his hands. He was then followed by Domenico on the white-tuned road bicycle, who made the high backward flip over the camera. After them, Raphael and Artemisia were roller skating along the wall of the tunnel with their red roller blades and pink roller-skates. Lorenzo then skated after them with his oversized green and black skateboard pair of rocket boosters and he was followed by Michelangelo, who skated along the tunnel's wall with his orange skateboard, going higher and higher along the wall before he jumped off it, landing in front of the camera with the smirk before skating away.)
"THOSE TEENAGE SIBLINGS!"

(First Donatello, then Domenico, then Leonardo, then Marietta, then Raphael, then Lorenzo, then Michelangelo, and finally Artemisia landed onto the rooftop with weapons in hands.)
"ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"
"FIVE! SIX! SEVEN! EIGHT!"

(Either spinning or waving their weapons, the turtles then charged forward towards the camera, with Leonardo taking the lead and slashing his swords forward.)
"TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES"

Then the logo of "TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES" appears, with the silhouetted figures of the eight turtles with the glowing eyes behind of it.
"TURTLES! TURTLES!"

=Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003=
=Meet Casey Jones Part 1=

A few days/one week later from the turtles meeting April and the defeat of Stockman and his Mousers.

It was an another peaceful day both in New York City and in the turtles' lair.

Dom and Louie were at the moment watching the news from TV in the entertainment zone while eating some pizza and drinking Soda.

The news were telling about lately happened bloody violence targeted at the gang members of the Purple Dragons. TV screens were showing the areas isolated by police, where the hospital people were loading onto the stretchers several members of the Purple Dragons, that were brutally beaten into a bad condition, before they were pushed inside of the ambulance car.

The Purple Dragons' faces and upper bodies were full of small and big, light and bad bruises obtained from either bare fists or melee weapons.. One member's eye was blackened and swollen while other's mouth was covered by blood and he had lost a lot amount of teeth. Their arms were badly bruised as well, most likely from taking the hit while their owners were trying to cover their faces from the brutal attacks. Few of them had their arms and legs broken and one had his arm out of its place. Majority of these "victims of the violence" were knocked unconscious but some of them were left at the edge of the consciousness. These ones moaned loudly and non-stop from both the dizziness and pain.

But what linked these attacks together was that the victims were telling about the crazy and violent vigilante guy wearing the hockey mask.

"And in the other news, four sightings of a vigilante wearing a hockey mask are being reported in connection with several brutal attacks on the notorious Purple Dragon gang alleged to have underworld connection." a female news reporter said in TV.

"Another brutal vigilante-attack? That's already a fourth one coming within a one week, and the week had just started." Dom exclaimed in frustrated disbelief.

Louie nodded in agreement as he put another portion of pizza into his mouth.

"Yeah. Couldn't agree more, bro. That guy, whoever he is, is making a serious and quite bad-looking butt-kicking stuff with these Purple Dragon goons." the turtle in black said, with the tone that sounded like he admired the one doing these attacks, much to Dom's disapproval.

"Are you seriously taking an amusement of watching what this new vigilante guy leaves behind with these attacks?!" Dom snarled, glaring down at his brother.

"Don't forget that we're vigilantes too." Louie countered. "We seriously kicked butts of those Purple Dragons back to that alley and returned their stolen cash to the authorities, if you remember."

"Louie! That was different back then. We didn't know who they were, They attacked us without the reason. We were just defending ourselves. Our so-called vigilante-act back then was more likely a self-defense." Dom told his brother.

"Sounded and looked more like 'frontier justice' to me." Louie shrugged.

"Hmph!" Dom snorted in annoyance before continuing. "Anyway, that time was completely different. But this new vigilante-guy is nothing like us. He's too violent and apparently too uncontrollable, who has done nothing more that lowered himself to the level of the Purple Dragons. And all violent people like him belong behind the bars, far away from society. So don't speak like you're admiring this vigilante-guy." Dom said, scolding his brother.

"Hey! I didn't say anything like that, Dom!" Louie snapped.

"But you thought so. Didn't you?" Dom questioned.

"Who do you think you are, aside of all-time nag-nag-nag-guy? A mind reader?" Louie countered back.

"Whatever!" Dom snapped. "What even makes you to admire this guy so much anyway?"

Louie shrugged at first in the manner of 'I don't know', before the turtle in black opened his mouth to answer to his brother.

"I don't know, bro. Maybe because I like to watch the bad-guys getting seriously butt-kicked both in action movies or in the real life. Or..." Louie said, 'till he paused to take another bite from pizza.

"Or...what? Go on." Dom said, urging his brother to continue.

"Or... maybe I'm just a curious about this new guy... both him in person and his motives for such of brutal attacks. That's all." the turtle in black eventually finished.

"And your point is?" Dom pressured.

"Well, as you said yourself, this guy may have lowered himself to the level of the Purple Dragons. Or, as Master Splinter uses to sometimes say: maybe there's more than meets the eye. Something in these attacks against the Dragons tells me that this a new guy isn't doing this for fun like those goons does. I think that this vigilante-guy is doing this for something else purpose... either trying to send message to the underworld connection, drive them out from their hiding spot, or blindly satisfy something, anger for example. Maybe because of the latter, because nobody loves those Dragon goons at all." Louie explained shortly. "It would be cool... no, an honor... to even fight alongside this new guy against those boneheads." he added, hitting the air with his fist with the eager smile on his face.

Dom then whacked his baby brother to the back of his head.

"Ow! What was that for?" Louie complained, rubbing his head with his hand.

"Forget it, Louie! You're letting that foolhardiness of yours to get over of your head again, aren't you?!" Dom said with dismissing and slightly mocking voice. "Besides, Master Splinter wouldn't like it if we just reveal ourselves to the upper world even more. He most certainly gives you a spanking with his staff, if you even suggest such of thing."

However, their conversation was interrupted when they heard the sound of punching and kicking coming from the lair's Dōjō area.

The turtles turned their eyes and attentions away from the TVs to look and see what's going on out there.

"And speaking of spanking..." Dom muttered, as they saw what was going on.

Raph was at the moment sparring with Mikey in the lair's Dōjō, while Arcee was sitting with her legs crossed on the edge of the floor's upper level, watching her brothers training fiercely with each others. Mikey eventually got the upper hand over Raph and the turtle in red ended up flying into the pile of the empty boxes, knocking some of them off the pile and ending up having one of the boxes stuck in his head.

"Ha! Nice fall, Raphael. You just come back if you want some more of that." Mikey said smugly, clapping his hands in mocking manner at Raph's defeat.

Raph slowly got back to his feet, growling and mumbling in frustration. Though none of the turtles around couldn't understand a word of what he was saying, due to the box that was still stuck on turtle in red's head.

Once back on his feet, Raph grabbed to the box and lifted it off his head. The turtle in red then angrily threw the box aside and turned instantly back to Mikey.

"You had it, Mikey!" Raph snarled. "Bro or no, YOU GOTTA GO!" he added with determination as he lunged at Mikey and sent the punch down on him his with his right fist, only to miss when Mikey dodged under it with a fast move.

"Good reverse punch." Mikey mocked.

Raph then sent the roundhouse kick at him, only to Mikey to dodge under it as well.

"Nice roundhouse kick too, Raph." the turtle in orange added.

Raph then sent few snap kicks, one per leg, at Mikey, who dodged them with relatively ease while moving backwards. On the third round, Mikey then dodged Raph's third kick with the back flip, landing onto his hands and then pushed himself up in the air at the same time as Raph sent a punch at his brother, missing him again. Raph then tried to sent another punch at Mikey, but Mikey flipped over his hot-headed brother, causing Raph to miss and fall onto his knees to the floor.

It was then when Leo and Master Splinter joined Arcee to observe the two's sparring.

"Whoa! Not the bad dragon-punch either..." Mikey admitted in mocking tone as Raph got up, turned around and attacked him yet again.

"But you're just a little too..." Mikey said as he dodged another punch from Raph, before he almost effortlessly and forcefully whacked Raph in the shell "...SLOW!"

The force of Mikey's counterattack was enough to sent Raph stumbling against the floor's outer ring's edge, next to sitting Arcee

"Actually, much too slow." Mikey mockingly corrected himself.

Raph growled even more angrily, slowly begin to lose his cool due to Mikey's constant teasing, which Arcee worriedly noticed.

"Mikey, don't push your luck..." Arcee tried to warn her brother, until suddenly...

Raph turned around and charged at Mikey, before he sent the punch right in the turtle in orange's chest. Thanks to Arcee's distraction, Raph's punch hit its mark and was hard enough to knock Mikey off his feet and send him skidding across the floor until he hit his shell-back first against the upper level's wall at the other side of the Dōjō.

That strike made Arcee wince that her right hand rose partially over her mouth!

"Oops." Arcee muttered.

"Ouch! That gotta hurt!" Louie winced, observing the sparring match from the couch with the eager smile on his faces.

Dom, however, grew worried about the situation after taking a notice of Raph's attitude, as the turtle in red was slowly but certainly going to lose the hold of himself. Even his attacks on Mikey appeared to be turning slowly but certainly real ones, as if Mikey was nothing more than a mere punching back or practice dummy into what Raph needed to vent his anger.

"I don't like this, Mikey should know that Raph's temper is as sensitive as a gunpowder or flammable liquid when it catches the fire. I'm afraid that this would end ugly." Dom said worriedly before leaping over the couch to join Master Splinter, Arcee and Leo.

All of them were starting to get really worried about the situation as if they already knew where this was going.

Growling now even louder, Raph charged at Mikey again as the turtle in orange stood back up.

Once getting close enough to hit, Raph attempted first to throw a punch at his brother and then sent in the roundhouse kick with his left leg, but Mikey dodged both of them. Raph then attempted to deliver the teeth-breaking right straight punch that almost hit Mikey in the face had he dodged under it a second too late.

Mikey then flipped backwards for a couple times, creating the distance between him and Raph, till he reached to the other side of the Dōjō.

"You think you're better than me?" Raph roared as he charged at Mikey. "DO YOU?!"

The turtles in red and orange then locked their hands together in a grapple above of their heads. In a desperate desire to beat Mikey in his own game, Raph pushed himself hard forward with all his strength.

"Of course, not. But..." Mikey smirked. "You're just too COCKY!" he spoke as he broke the grapple, much to Raph's surprise, and tripped him over with his left leg.

"AAHHHH!" Raph yelled as he was sent flying across the air and towards the wooden table outside of Dōjō area.

Donnie and Mary were, unfortunately sitting on the same table at the moment. Mary was reading some book and Donnie was welding some metal pipes, all the while trying their best to ignore their sparring brothers.

However, the two were instantly snapped out of their doings by Raph's surprised yell before looking up. Upon seeing the turtle in red flying straight towards them, Donnie and Mary were forced to abandon their seats and doings to the table and jump aside before Raph landed onto the table, which broke into pieces under his weight.

"Winner and still champion is... MICHELANGELO!" Mikey declared triumphantly, bowing deeply at the audience; Master Splinter, Leo, Dom and Arcee.

However, while Mikey's shell was turned, Raph slowly got up to his feet from the ground, holding in his hand the metal pipe with which Donnie was working on.

Mikey's 'audience' gasped worriedly as they saw their hotheaded brother growing even more angry than ever.

Raph was huffing angrily. His arms began to tremble and his hands clenched tightly into a fists. He then aimed his narrowed eyes — that were ablaze from anger — at Mikey

"No... NO! You... YOU!" Raphael growled menacingly.

And then, much to everybody's surprise and shock, Raphael leaped at Mikey in a blind rage like an wild animal. Raph's attack took Mikey off guard as the turtle in red violently tackled his little brother and pinned him flat on his shell against the ground.

Seeing the metal pipe in Raph's hand and the raging flame in his eyes, Mikey realized, much to his horror, what his brother was going to do.

"RAPH?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WAIT! STOP! RAPHAEL! PLEASE, DON'T...! STOP! STOOOOP!" Mikey begged in horrified panic, as he covered his face with his hands, closed his eyes and turned his face away, bracing himself for the blow.

Raphael ignored his brother and, with anger in his eyes, raised the pipe over his head and prepared to bring it down on Mikey's head with all his might.

However, it never came.

Reacting quickly, both Leo and Dom rushed to interfere before Raph would do something he might regret later. Coming from behind, Leo wrapped his arms around of Raph's pipe-holding arm and pulled it back before he could bring the pipe down on Mikey, while Dom seized Raph into a tight choke hold to restrain his furious brother and pull him off Mikey.

"RAPHAEL! HAVE YOU LOST YOUR GODDAMNED MIND?!" Leo angrily shouted in disbelief of his brother's actions.

"WHAT THE SHELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!" Dom yelled as well.

The rest of the family quickly rushed in. Louie and Donnie grabbed Mikey by his arms and pulled him away from Raph. Going into doctor mode, Arcee knelt beside Mikey and started to check her brother's condition.

"Are you okay, Mikey?" Arcee worriedly asked as she kept looking for physical injuries.

Mikey didn't answer. The turtle in orange was too shaken from such of violent attack and for what his brother nearly did to him. So shocked that he didn't dare to take his arms from covering his face yet... otherwise, he was physically okay.

"WHAT THE SHELL WERE YOU THINKING, RAPH?!" Donnie shouted in disbelief and worry.

"YEAH! WHAT'S GOT INTO YOU, RAPHAEL?! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU ALMOST DID?!" Arcee shouted angrily.

"DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU ALMOST SMASHED MIKEY'S HEAD IN WITH THAT THING!" Mary barked, pointing with her finger at the pipe Raph was still holding in his hand.

Raph turned first to Leo, then from Leo to Donnie, then to Arcee, then to Mary, then to the pipe in his hand until his eyes lowered down to meet Mikey's own. Seeing the horrified and shaken look in Mikey's eyes, all the blinding rage and burning anger vanished from him immediately. The turtle in red was instantly shocked and deeply horrified upon realization of what he had almost done.

Breathing rapidly in and out, Raph let go of the pipe and dropped it to the floor, allowing Leo and Dom to let go if him once the pipe was out of his hands.

"I..." he attempted to speak as he looked at his siblings, regret in his voice. The turtle in red tried to find the words to explain himself, but he couldn't find any. The guilt and disbelief of his own actions robbed all of his words. "Leo... Dom... Arcee... Mikey... I... I didn't... I..." Raph then lifted his hands over his eyes in shame.

Master Splinter then walked next to Raph, placing the hand on his shoulder to get his attention. "Oh, my son... so angry." he said with calm voice that also included some disappointment in his son's behavior. "Rage is a monster that will destroy you from within. Raphael, a true warrior finds balance in all things."

"Master Splinter is right." Mary said. "You gotta do something with your temper before you end up of doing what you almost did to your own brother."

Raph slowly stood up and looked down at his hands, still upset and ashamed of himself.

"Master Splinter, I... uh... I... I... I... I-I-I gotta-gotta get some air!" Raph stuttered between the breaths, before he hurriedly and without looking back rushed out of the lair... most likely heading to the surface to get some air and calm down.

While most of the family remained still disappointed but also worried in Raph while watching the hot-headed turtle's departure, Mikey, having recovered from his shock after being helped back up to his feet by Donnie and Arcee, felt sorry for Raph and was about to go after him to make sure he was okay, only for Master Splinter to grab from his shoulder to hold him back.

"Let him go, Michelangelo. Your brother needs some time alone to calm down and think." he said.

Dom was the next to speak, turning to Mikey. "I hope that you too, Mikey, did learn your own part of the lesson from this as well, "Never provoke anyone like that again!"" the turtle in white said with a scolding tone.

Mikey felt a bit offended of what Dom had just said without a visible sympathy for him, especially after he almost fell a victim to Raph's sudden outburst. "Hey! Little sympathy here! I almost got my head bashed in five minutes ago! Besides, how could I have known that the situation got out of hands like that?!"

Dom simply shook his head. "Now you do, I hope." he added, before he turned his shell-back to the turtle in orange and returned back to the entertainment zone.

After the situation had calmed down, each turtle departed from the scene, returning back to what they were doing before this whole incident.

However, Louie remained still a bit longer, with Master Splinter next to him. The turtle in black then turned to his father.

"Sensei? If you don't mind, I'll go later fetch Raph back home after he has calmed down enough." Louie requested humbly before he started to depart.

"Hmmm... something tells me that this may need something more than just time alone for him to calm down and understand some things." Splinter said calmly.

Splinter's words got Louie's attention and he turned back to look at him. "What do you mean, Sensei?"

"In order to understand, Raphael needs to study himself from his reflection in the mirror, even though he doesn't even need the mirror for it." Splinter explained, before he walked away, leaving Louie to look after him in confusion.

Louie knew that this was once again one of those times when the Master Splinter's words of wisdom left their true meaning in the dark and confused the others around of the old rat master... at least until there was something that proved the sense of his words.

"In order to understand... he needs to study himself... from the reflection in the mirror... Even though he doesn't... even need the mirror for it." Louie slowly repeated Splinter's words. "That doesn't make any sense at all, says I." Louie said, speaking particularly to no one.

Deciding to put it aside for now, the turtle in black then turned to the open front door through of which Raph had just left.

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On the topside.

Raph had made his way to the street level and climbed the stairs of one of the buildings, heading to the rooftops. Once he finally reached there, he ran to the edge of the roof and stopped there to catch his breath.

The turtle in red was panting heavily, but it wasn't just because of the exertion of his non-stopping running but also of his horror and shock for his actions, which were still coursing through of him.

Raph stared down at his hands - especially his right hand that had held that pipe with which he was a moment ago about to do something very horrible and unforgettable to his own little brother - and saw they were still shaking violently after the incident.

Raph then put his hands to the sides of his head and shook his head in a vain attempt to shake off his mind repeating images of his little brother Michelangelo lying on the floor beneath him with shocked and frightened look on his face, which cruelly tormented him.

Finally, angry with himself, Raph clenched his hands into fists and hit them against his chest. He then raised his fists up and let out the roar in rage and anguish to the night sky.

"AAAGGGHHHH! WHAT THE SHELL IS WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEE?!"

The echo of his loud anguished roar reached to every corner of New York city, before the turtle in red let his hands, shoulders and head drop down in shame.

To be continued.